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The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions from Public Radio's Award-Winning Food Show | 
| Authors: Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Sally Swift
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
Buy New: $23.10
You Save: $11.90 (34%)
Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 1728
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0307346714
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.53
EAN: 9780307346711
ASIN: 0307346714
Publication Date: April 8, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Just when you thought the last thing the world needed was another book on weeknight cooking, along comes an entirely fresh take on the subject. As they do on their weekly show, host Lynne Rossetto Kasper and producer Sally Swift approach their topic with attitude and originality, making The Splendid Table’s How to Eat Supper one of the most engaging cookbooks of this or any other year.
As loyal listeners know, Lynne and Sally share an unrelenting curiosity about everything to do with food. Their show, The Splendid Table, looks at the role food plays in our lives—inspiring us, making us laugh, nourishing us, and opening us up to the world around us. Now they have compiled all the most trenchant tips, never-fail recipes, and everyday culinary know-how from the program in How to Eat Supper, a kitchen companion unlike any other.
This is no mere cookbook. Like the show, this book goes far beyond the recipe, introducing the people and stories that are shaping America’s changing sense of food. We don’t eat, shop, or cook as we used to. Our relationship with food has intensified, become more controversial, richer, more pleasurable, and sometimes more puzzling. How to Eat Supper gives voice to rarely heard perspectives on food—from the quirky to the political, from the grassroots to the scholarly, from the highbrow to the humble—and shows the essential role breaking bread together plays in our world.
How to Eat Supper takes you through a plethora of inviting recipes simple enough to ensure success even if you’ve never cooked before. And if you are experienced in the kitchen, you’ll find challenging new concepts and dishes to spark your imagination.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 36 more reviews...
 teaches techniques and introduces new flavor combinations January 7, 2009
Jenny O'Donnell (La Varenne FRANCE)
I asked for this for Christmas after listening to the show, but also finding it listed favorably on a cookbook review website. I like the cookbook for its straighforward instructions in the not-so-basic cooking techniques, and the common sense approach to making healthy but very tasty meals. I love the quotes sprinkled throughout and the tips about other good cookbooks. I also like how they incorporated various cooking traditions into this basic primer. It's easy to be adventurous while still not too risky in making dinner! I have the sense it's not perfect -- but I don't know what's missing, and I think it's a great resource for the new or intermediate cook.
 Cookbook January 6, 2009
Barbara King
Great gift for the cook in your life who loves to learn new tricks and recipes. Lovely book.
Beautiful Book January 6, 2009
Sharon L. Scheel (Tallahassee, FL)
This was a gift for my daughter, she had heard it discussed on NPR's Splendid Table. I looked through it and was very impressed and now plan on buying one for myself.
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